I genuinely don’t have an axe to grind with OpenJDK. Yes, I’m skeptical about it (specifically its governance, especially in the short term) but I have nothing personal to gain by its success or failure (well, actually, as someone who makes a living by writing Java code, I probably do have something to gain if it succeeds and lose if it fails).

I take your point about making it appear that you’re defining policy, but in some sense I hope/believe you are, that’s one of the things I believe open source is about – decisions made by the community, and you’re presenting yourself as part of the community.

More broadly though, it does reflect other statements I’ve seen from others talking about OpenJDK – that people shouldn’t worry about politics and governance because the important thing is that the code is there. If your post was the first thing I’d seen with that sentiment I wouldn’t have commented.

If you don’t think your views reflect the views of many in the OpenJDK community I’ll be happy to update the post to reflect that.